I got inerested in ( or better yet, I was introduced to ) Puppy only few weeks back. Before that time I had no idea What Linux was or how it worked at all.

At that time latest puppy was 1.0.4. So I downloaded it, burned a Cd and ran multisession LiveCD for the first time. ( I still have that CD ), I configured it over and over again, ran it over and over again and no problem occured whenever I saved my session back to CD.

I loved the Puppy so much that I had burnt like 50+ CDS for my friends. ( They all loved it and Thanked me for it )

Problem started later on when I burned another CD, it started showing errors when I tried to save sessions

I/O errors
CDRECORD errors
EOF initdn
Bad Request, and some more I can't read as the lines were moving so fast.

I thought since I had used my (ASUS) burner too many times maybe it was malfunctioning, I bought a brand new Sony burner and much to my disappointment, the same problem is now ocurring with every CD that I burn.

I initially configured a pup001 file and saved it in zip form on my disk and whenever I want to load old configuration I just unzip it to C:\ drive and run new Puppy LiveCD pointing it to update from hda1 pup001. It boots and shows my configuration but can not save sessions.

Help me out with these problems if you guys can because it is driving me crazy, and I have had just about enough of this situation. I would hate to go back to using Windows but I might if this problem persists.

Yep. It's trying to burn my CD as a DVD-R. (For those of you trying to read things on the screen as it goes past, ^S will pause the text and ^Q will let it continue. Most of the time. )

Anyway, it is actually in a DVD burner, but it should also be able to burn CDs. It burned the first and second tracks properly, but now it's misdetecting the media type. Is there perhaps a way to tell it what kind of media it's on and so bypass the whole detection thing?

@pakt Way to go man. Sorry if I confused anybody, old habits die hard. There are one character symbols for the alt and shift keys too, but they're not on most keyboards.

And yes, my drive can burn CDs. I used it to burn the original image, and it burned track two just fine as well. Then it started thinking it was a DVD... I'll try the latest version in a bit and see what happens. Methinks I should invest in a CD-RW until this is over... Either that or plan on building a few toy cars with large wheels...

I downloaded and burned a multi-session in my laptop Oct-27. The first shut down it read to the disk but subsequent shut downs I get errors and no burn. The laptop I'm using has a cd burner with dvd-ROM.